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Sample of authors
Asimov, Isaac
Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three years old he moved with his parents to New York where they came to own several candy stores/newsagents. Asimov studied at Columbia University, New York, and took his doctor's degree in chemistry in 1948. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the American Air Force experimental...
Literary figures
Gwenn Ramadge
Gender: Female
Attractive and intelligent, 32-year-old Gwenn Ramadge has a robust and secure background growing up in a middle-class family, but she decides to become a private detective. She starts the Hart Security and Investigations agency in Manhattan and (in novels by Lillian O’Donnell) she solves murder cases with predominantly female victims. She is helped by male police officers, who even become her b...